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DOS Memory Management
- burnt-resistor 7mo agoLater, V-Com Memory Commander allowed 902 KiB of free conventional memory instead of something like 623 using a number of tricks.
- KellyCriterion 7mo agoAUTOEXEC.BAT & HIMEM.SYS rulers - rise your hand if you liked it: XMS, EMS and all that - what a great time before we had unified mem, right? :-D LOL
- TMWNN 7mo agoFrom Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_game>: >By 1993, PC games required much more memory than other software, often consuming all of conventional memory, while device drivers could go into upper memory with DOS memory managers. Players found modifying `CONFIG.SYS` and `AUTOEXEC.BAT` files for memory management cumbersome and confusing, and each game needed a different configuration. (The game Les Manley in: Lost in L.A. satirizes this by depicting two beautiful women exhaust the hero in bed, by requesting that he again explain the difference between extended and expanded memory.)
- KellyCriterion 7mo agoIf you want a fight, take this! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIMEM.SYS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIMEM.SYS :-D LOL Good ol days....